The website is to maintain a community of academics wanting to translate a series of Arabic and Andalucian manuscripts on agriculture and irrigation, and to make the original scanned books and their resulting translation available to the wider public.

The website needs to be based on an open-source CMS such as Drupal or Joomla.

In addition to providing information about the project, the website will need to have some dynamic functionality, such as user registration, event management, and a small list/database of Manuscripts by Titles, Authors and Locations.

In addtion to the database being available as a searchable list, we would like this information to be viewable on a map, using the Google Maps API for example.

For the public, they need to be able to read the scanned manuscripts, preferrably with functionality similar to the Google book viewer if possible, otherwise as an organised image gallery. They also need to ...